Size on images for briefing

[NECK]

What size do I have to use on briefing pictures in mission editor, in order get them to show correctly in the briefing section before and during a flight?

[Quirkitized]

GUI Manual says 512x512.

[Heli Shed]

GUI Manual says 512x512.

 

Yes. It's 512x512, which would normally be fine for a mission briefing page, but in MP the graphic is scaled dependant on the resolution making the briefing pages, particularly graphics look like something straight off a neo-geo!

 

Personally, I'd like to see this stop and the pic remain at 512x512, (which it does for SP) or for bigger graphic sizes. This may well prevent extra work by those of us who run VFS's, by having to make mission briefings on our sites, for those of us that do..............................which ironically seems to be a dying practice.

 

Please ED. stop the scaling.

 

Regards

 

'T'

[Grimes]

GUI manual may say 512x512 is the only acceptable size of an image, however this is not entirely accurate.

 

SP: Image is Cropped from the center to fit 512x512

 

MP: Image scales to fit whatever resolution the user is using.

 

A 1024x1024 image scales nicely on most modern display resolutions in multiplayer :) It will look stupid in single player, but if you are making MP only missions like I tend to do, its not that big of an issue.

 

Personally I dislike being limited to images and I much prefer something like ARMA or PlanetSide 2 where the user has a map they can zoom in on and move around for mission briefings and to get the current status on the game. But alas it is what it is.

[Heli Shed]

 

A 1024x1024 image scales nicely on most modern display resolutions in multiplayer :)

 

Interesting.

 

So we should ignore the GUI manaul entry regarding 512x512 images?

 

1024x1024 will work ok it seems?

 

I'm assuming that ED stipulated 512x512 to keep the mission file size down which is ironic when considering the mission truncating save system currently in force.

 

'T'

[Mojeaux]

Right Tyger; As told to me! You can pretty much have the size you wish..Just keep it a square! 512 X 512, 1024 X 1024, 768 X 768 ect..ect..

[NECK]

Thanx guys

[Grimes]

Like I said, it won't display correctly in the single player briefing if its larger than 512x512 as it crops it from the center. I should probably try to load a really large image into a briefing to see what it does in MP. I'd imagine it will scale it to whatever the maximum allowed size is for the current monitor.

[Heli Shed]

Excellent! Thanks gents.

 

'T'